Writing in his 2004 book Democracy and Tradition the Princeton scholar of religion Jeffrey Stout observed that if you wanted traditional Christian believers to feel marginalized from liberal democracy, one way likely to succeed would be pairing up Rawlsian political theory with a bunch of Christian thinkers who basically agree with him.
It didn't even necessarily matter if the Christians in question thought Rawlsian social order was good or bad; it simply mattered that they said "yes, that's how liberal democracy works."
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